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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: Help with type definition
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:26:14 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Why -1 should indicate null string and not 0 is a mystery.

Possibly because it is considered relevant to distinguish between "no
string" and "an empty string".

Greetings,

Jacob
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